Gestation in Teenage women between 15 to 19 years. Assessment of five years in a General Hospital. : Research Article

Alejandro Lenin Villalobos Rodríguez

doi:10.58372/2835-6276.1060

Authors

Alejandro Lenin Villalobos Rodríguez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58372/2835-6276.1060

Keywords:

Teenage women, Pregnancy, Teenage Pregnancy, Adverse pregnancy outcomes, Risk factors

Abstract

INTRODUCTION. Despite a substantial 12% decline in adolescent-specific fertility rates over the past two decades globally, approximately 21 million girls in the 15-19 age group become pregnant in developing countries. The WHO estimates that about 11% of all births occurred to women under 20, and 95% occurred in low- and middle-income countries, generally among the most disadvantaged adolescents.

MATERIAL AND METHOD. A descriptive, longitudinal, observational study of 127 teen pregnancies between 15 and 19 years from 2018-2022. We used descriptive statistics of percentages, measures of central tendencies, and dispersion.

RESULTS. During the study period, 584 late adolescent pregnant women were treated at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of the Playa del Carmen General Hospital, selecting 127 cases distributed by age into five groups from 15 to 19 years with more significant risks as the pregnant women age increases.

DISCUSSION. Over the past 15 years, most countries have reported a continued decline in the adolescent pregnancy rate, attributable to adolescent support, education, contraception, and other pregnancy prevention strategies. Unfavorable adolescent pregnancy outcomes are major public health problems with significant socioeconomic impacts. We know that favorable pregnancy outcomes are less common in adolescent girls than in older women, but the actual cause of these complications, biological or socioeconomic, remains uncertain. Adolescent pregnancy is increasingly becoming a public health problem rather than a clinical practice problem. The majority of teenage pregnancies are unplanned.

CONCLUSIONS. For the state of Quintana Roo we were able to observe a significant decrease in the specific fertility rate in adolescents between 15 and 19 years of age, for 2019 there were 59.8 births per thousand adolescents, while for the pre-2022 closing date there was a rate of 38.5 births per thousand adolescents, having a difference of 21.3; being that at the national level by 2030 it is expected to decrease to 62.2 births per thousand.

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